User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the City of London

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for User Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 116 116
Rank change year-on-year +70 0 -16
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 94 62 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.24% 1.69% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 1.84% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 40 56
10th Percentile £481 £334 £359
25th Percentile £525 £380 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +10.44% -3.29%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £604
90th Percentile £838 £801 £711
Central London median daily rate £550 £569 £515
% change year-on-year -3.30% +10.44% -1.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

User Acceptance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,368 3,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.31% 91.80% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,417 2,260 2,968
10th Percentile £356 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing User Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the City of London

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the City of London

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the City of London

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the City of London

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (21.28%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.38%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (9.57%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (3.19%) NEC Housing
3 2 (2.13%) Loan IQ
4 1 (1.06%) ION MarketView
4 1 (1.06%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (1.06%) SAP MDM
4 1 (1.06%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.70%) Azure
2 7 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.06%) AWS
3 1 (1.06%) Boomi
3 1 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.26%) NetScaler
2 3 (3.19%) WAN
3 2 (2.13%) CTI
3 2 (2.13%) H.323
3 2 (2.13%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.06%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.06%) Big Data
2 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.06%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.06%) DataStage
2 1 (1.06%) DB2
2 1 (1.06%) KDB
2 1 (1.06%) Power BI
2 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.06%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (5.32%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) TestRail
3 1 (1.06%) ERwin
3 1 (1.06%) Git
3 1 (1.06%) MSI
3 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 44 (46.81%) Finance
2 27 (28.72%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.77%) Banking
4 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Police
7 2 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.06%) Front Office
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
8 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (37.23%) Analyst
2 32 (34.04%) Business Analyst
3 14 (14.89%) Data Business Analyst
3 14 (14.89%) Data Migration Analyst
3 14 (14.89%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 14 (14.89%) Migration Analyst
4 13 (13.83%) Consultant
5 11 (11.70%) Developer
5 11 (11.70%) SharePoint Analyst
5 11 (11.70%) SharePoint Business Analyst
6 9 (9.57%) Great Plains Consultant
6 9 (9.57%) Microsoft Consultant
7 7 (7.45%) Finance Business Analyst
7 7 (7.45%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (6.38%) Product Owner
8 6 (6.38%) Senior
9 5 (5.32%) Financial Business Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Financial Services Business Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Lead
9 5 (5.32%) Market Risk Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.26%) SAML
2 1 (1.06%) CSS
2 1 (1.06%) Dojo
2 1 (1.06%) HTML
2 1 (1.06%) React
2 1 (1.06%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.06%) Spring
2 1 (1.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.32%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.32%) Market Risk
3 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.06%) CMDB
4 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.06%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.26%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.91%) User Stories
2 26 (27.66%) Agile
3 23 (24.47%) Migration
4 22 (23.40%) Requirements Gathering
5 21 (22.34%) Validation
6 20 (21.28%) Root Cause Analysis
7 19 (20.21%) Data Management
7 19 (20.21%) Data Migration
7 19 (20.21%) GAP Analysis
8 16 (17.02%) Test Scripting
9 13 (13.83%) DevOps
10 12 (12.77%) Acceptance Criteria
10 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (12.77%) Workshop Facilitation
11 11 (11.70%) Use Case
12 10 (10.64%) Business Analysis
13 9 (9.57%) SDLC
14 8 (8.51%) Project Management
15 6 (6.38%) Translating Business Requirements
15 6 (6.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.47%) SQL
2 7 (7.45%) C#
2 7 (7.45%) Python
3 6 (6.38%) Java
4 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.06%) ABAP
5 1 (1.06%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (14.89%) Degree
2 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.32%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) CCNA
3 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.06%) ISEB
5 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.53%) QA
2 19 (20.21%) Data Quality
3 9 (9.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.19%) SLA
5 2 (2.13%) EMIR
5 2 (2.13%) PMO
6 1 (1.06%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) SCCM
2 1 (1.06%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.32%) Citrix
3 4 (4.26%) Cisco
3 4 (4.26%) SAP
4 3 (3.19%) BT
4 3 (3.19%) NEC
4 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.13%) Arista
5 2 (2.13%) Avaya
5 2 (2.13%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.13%) Radianz
5 2 (2.13%) Refinitiv
5 2 (2.13%) Reuters
6 1 (1.06%) Calypso
6 1 (1.06%) Dell
6 1 (1.06%) Embarcadero
6 1 (1.06%) Kenna
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle
6 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.06%) Sybase